World Historical Medals
Lot 4126 SESSION 12 (11.30am Thurs 29 July) World Historical Medals
Estimate $500
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SOUTH AFRICA, 1895, railway medal in silver (44mm) by J.P.M. Menger. Virtually uncirculated and very rare in silver.
In contemporary leatherette fitted case. A medal to commemorate the opening of the railway line from Pretoria in ZAR to Delagoa Bay in Mozambique. By Johan Philip Mathias Menger, head engraver at the Royal Mint in Utrecht, Holland. Refer to Hern 16, Africana Museum 5 and Numismata Africana 1652-1952, p.24-25. The railway line was of great strategic importance to the ZAR fulfilling Kruger's ambition to enable trade between the ZAR and the rest of the world independently of Britain, especially in relation to gold export and the importation of arms.
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